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Wednesday, 7 August 2013

How do you get students to reflect on learning?

As teachers we are always looking for new ways to get our students to show us what they know.

We invite you to add to your repertoire - this new resource may help you to use new tools in your lessons.

We have put together some of our favourite tools which you will love to use in your classroom. Each tool is designed to get your students thinking, articulate their new learning and record the strategies they are using.

You may wish to use them as a one off or select some to use at the beginning, middle and end of a unit of work.

Contact us if you would like extra ones included.

These tools can be used
for students to share their reasoning of mathematical concepts

PMI – record the positive,
minus and interesting facts about the topic

Alphabet Key – record what
you know by using the alphabet to organise your knowledge

Venn Diagram – choose two
aspects of mathematics to compare: what is similar goes in the centre

Fishbone – The topic goes
in the fish head and what you know is recorded on the fish bones grouped by
headings

Diary – record what you do
each day and set a goal at the end of each week

Journal – Record what you
know and what is next

KWHL – share what you
know, want to know, how you might find it out and new learning

Mind Mapping – show what
you know and add to this you progress through the task

Y chart – what it sounds
like, feels like and looks like

Think board – great for
showing the same concept in four different ways

Lotus Diagram – the topic
goes in the centre and record what you know around the topic. The word in the green
goes in the next green space and then record detail you know about this around
the word. Continuing with each colour